11.7% ▲ +72.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Armidale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Armidale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people speak a language other than English in Armidale than in most similar areas. While English is the primary tongue for the vast majority, about 11.7% of the population uses another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 78.6% of residents, and while 11.7% speak another language at home, this is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Only 1.8% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas but still a little below the Australian average of 3.4%.
1.8% ▲ +35.4%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Armidale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10086/armidale/topic/language